It’s already popular enough to be a meme scroll substitute for Reddit so I’m good.
I think it’s already popular.
Yeah, I loke ig a lot!
Nah. But it’s already everything I need it to be.
Lemmy doesn’t have to be Reddit. Lemmy is Lemmy. Keep coming here and giving it content and it will be all it will ever need to be.
It’s popular enough for me already. I kind of hope it doesn’t become the online site because that will just attract trolls.
I’ve also been using Trust Café (aka WT.Social) but I like the Lemmy UI a lot better.
(thinking of Reddit) God, I hope not."
Oh, of course. We’ll easily be just as popular as Matrix and Mastodon.
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Hey, I had a conversation on Matrix that one time!
And my Mastodon feed has TONS of content from George Takei.
I’ve heard, and I haven’t tried myself, that Matrix has tons of utility between other messaging apps, sending messages to and fro or remote controlling other clients, or moderating large amounts of rooms at once.
It’s nice that it isn’t just for drugs and crypto, tho.
Actually some people were trying to help me with a problem on a Linux system. It’s weird but makes sense that most of these fringe tech platforms are used by people using Linux to talk about Linux.
It’s like ham radios… lots of folks talking about their ham radios. And their plans for their ham radios. And asking about ham radios.
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I don’t want it to be popular. I want to have a good conversation, in the communities i choose to participate in, and that’s exactly what I found
It depends whether the servers can handle the inevitable next Reddit exodus.
No. The whole fediverse thing is niche and likely always will be. That might be a good thing though.
Right now, it’s definitely a good thing it’s not popular. We are not in any way shape or form ready for the spam that popular platforms receive.
Yeah I don’t want it to become a cesspit like Reddit, Facebook, and Xitter.
You’d typically think the abuse that happens on a higher level than dumb spam which those platforms succumb to would be even worse, but I feel we’re somehow in a slightly better position to regulate that on Lemmy because of the delegation of moderation to users rather than instance admins.
We “just” need a relatively small amount of the “right” people to effectively counter that.
The problem is that who and what you consider to be right is extremely subjective.
Their success is relatively easy to measure objectively by their effectiveness at protecting communities from i.e. subtle trolls or troll enablers.
Though one’s opinion on topics can influence the ability to spot such scum in the moment, the “right” people/a good moderator will know how to do that despite their topical (dis)agreements.
It’s already popular with a good userbase. Popular with idiots? Hopefully not.
I was on Reddit when it was small. So you never know.
I was gonna say I think I liked reddit more before the digg folks came. Maybe Lemmy is right where it should be.
I hope not. Imagine all the crazies.
so you prefer smaller forums to bigger forums like reddit?
I prefer social media where people post because they have content, need help or want to discuss something, not just post to be hip or the site is popular.
I don’t care, I just want a nice place to wander, nothing is forever, but the longer, the better, regardless of popularity
I honestly can’t understand why most of the popular social media providers are popular. But, if that’s what it takes, could we not?
